The Floppotron 3.0 - Computer Hardware Orchestra
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- The big upgrade of my PC hardware orchestra. 512 floppy disk drives, 16 hard disks and 4 scanners. What do you want to hear next? Write it in comments!
Playing: Entrance of the Gladiators (by Julius Fucík). More details on how it works - silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/....
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So that's where all the worlds floppy drives went...
From the disk drive's perspective, they went from a boring desk job to superstardom!
From a quick search, I found a floppy disk drive can consume up to 34 W, under 1 W when on standby, so this is a pretty insane setup: 34 W * 512 = 17.4 kW ;)
@@pavel9652 ,
Thankfully you don't to run the floppy drive ALL the time :) or at least under normal operating conditions! LOL
@@David_Ladd Haha, Floppotron isn't normal operating conditions ;)
@@pavel9652 I don't know where you're getting that from but it's entirely incorrect. 3.5" floppy drives only use a few watts at most. I just found a datasheet for a Panasonic 3.5" Floppy drive and it's rated for 1.5W while reading.
You know you're doing good in life when your musical instrument has a dedicated emergency stop button
Two even!
And consumes 1.2kW at peak!
That second Estop isn't very dedicated and often daydreams while on the clock and never gets back on time from lunch
@@Lectrikfro so it is redundant in all definitions of the word is what you're saying? :)
@@djgummikuh8895 Sure we had one emergency stop button, but what about the second emergency stop button?
Y'know what the best thing about the Floppotron is? It's an acoustic instrument.
Oh my goodness! That's hilarious. Brilliant observation.
It's basically an enormous electromechanical synthesizer, which is badass
@@AnomalousVixel More like an electric organ, like an Hammond.
@@giacomoneri1782 Not really like a Hammond. The Hammond generates an electronic signal by electromechanical means, and then plays it through and amplifier and speaker system. Although the floppotron is also electromechanical, it directly excites vibrations in the air. Big difference!
I mean this in the kindest possible way, you look like exactly the kind of person to build an instrument containing 512 floppy disk drives, 16 hard disks and 4 scanners.
AND PLAYS METAL ON IT!!
I thought exactly the same. I also suspect those were deliberately chosen in powers of two
@@Tentin.Quarantino wow good point lol!
@@Tentin.Quarantino Makes sense.
You have to be able to address each one individually, so unless you want to accept waste of address space, make them powers of 2.. :-)
I feel like at some point a collaboration between you and Device Orchestra is inevitable.
Hi Jeff. You're a little late for the celebration. ;-)
Holy shit, yes, please, please make this happen.
Hello raspberry pi man
Those drives are going to need so many googly eyes.
Don't forget Sam from look mum no computer
Father: our son will be a musician
Mother: no, he'll be a computer tech
Their son:
AHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHH
he became both in a way XD
@@Nichodo Just guessing here, but I suspect "that's the joke" applies.
@@Nichodo yeah, that's the punchline
Mr. Fucik (the composer) could never have imagined this, 120+ years ago. Great stuff.
- On what instrument you want this to be played?
- It's complicated...
@@devilaverage6718 "It's too hard. The project might flop."
Mr. Fucik really puts the I in fuck.
This is the reason why he won't be happy, "SEND IN THE CLOWNS!"
@@ARandomInternetUser08 What a floppy answer 🎉🎉🎉😂
I just love the fact that Pavel calls it "Beta". Like he's ironing out some final bugs before mass production, and then we'll soon have a floppotron in every home and office 😂
Original engineers: "We need to design these mechanical movements to be as quiet as possible". Pawel: "Hold my beer".
You failed, but I made your failure beautiful
i don't think they cared about that back then. making things quiet was only started in pretty much the 2000 floppy drives are much older than that.
I'm surprised he's not using Amiga 500 drives. Dem things made a racket, but probably since they were not n a sealed drive enclosure and sitting in a hollow plastic PC shell
hahahhahahahaha!!!!!!!!
The noise was not a consideration at all back then.
There should be a Floppotron soundfont to replicate that using a random midi file. It's beautiful.
Agreed, I'd buy it.
@@aidenklass9767 hell, i would pay just for a sample pack
Brilliant idea
It wouldn't be the same.
Honestly, I'd definitely buy that!
This deserves to be bought by a modern art gallery for big money. It is wonderful, it literally fills people with wonder! So much better than most of the stuff that usually wins all the big money. Bravo!
I'm thinking maybe that Dutch mechanical instruments museum where the Marble Machine was displayed
@@starry_lis Oh yes - and an HMI Panel like a juke Box where visitors can choose their favourite song
Sadly nowadays the things considered art and museum worthy are bananas taped on the wall.
@@StormCrusher94 that banana piece was making the point your trying to make. It was great.
@@starry_lis As far as I know it's regularly displayed in museums and was sold for actual money (more than a banana should be), so apparently it was taken seriously enough, so he's not wrong
Having been submerged in IT a good portion of my life, I never had a thought like this. It's absolutely nerdy brilliance.
I am relieved to see and hear this marvel of engineering. The news that the Flopotron 2.0 would be decommissioned troubled me greatly yesterday evening. Mourning is over: The Floppotron is dead. Long live the Floppotron!
Long live the Floppotron!
I too was worried after seeing the video yesterday about the end of Floppotron 2.0. Glad to see v3.0, and the quality is excellent.
Speaking of Marvel I think X-men The animated series Theme song would sound great on this thing
Long live the Floppotron!
Need to hear some Master Boot Record or Keygen Church on this
Spread the code!
Master Boot Record feels almost obligatory. I hope they do.
or The Algorithm
Yes PLEASE! It is meant to be
Heavy metal never died. It was just never evenly synthesized.
I would buy the Flappotron from you for my instrument collection.
How mut mony?
The lord have spoken !
But Sir! How to perform duet if both instruments are in Your kindly hands?!
Hahaha :) - maybe better suggest him doing a dedicated piano for your great videos and make a movie about the making :)
@@TymexComputing If it's midi compatible, you can use a keyboard to play it.
It's kinda of an electric organ, like an Hammond, stepper motors playing notes.
Man you're an old time TH-cam legend, so glad to see you still putting out awesome music videos!
This may actually make it into a museum one day.
Here's hoping.
Nope, never a museum. It should be handed down to next generation forever and ever and never stop playing 😁
Nope, bring it to Look Mum No Computer's Museum Of Everything Else
Look mum no computers museums
I agree. Having this (or the previous floppotron) in a technology museum would be a great asset to get people excited for technology
@@bennylloyd-willner9667 Well there is that mechanical music museum the marble machine made it into, that way it'd still get played and be in a museum where everyone can see it.
He had us in the first half, not gonna lie (please don't ever pretend to end the floppotron again)
I know right? I am so glad Pawel keeps it going
Hell yeah! I felt really sad when he retired the old Floppotron!
This single clip is more impressive than all of tiktok put together.
AMAZING job man!!
i mean, thats not really hard, but still true
Now put this clip on TikTok and TikTok wil be slightly more impressive than this clip
That’s not saying much
@@ApMignonne I love your sense of humor!
watching paint dry is more impressive than all of tiktok put together
Someone please build a physical monument for this man... this is one of the most amazing things I have ever witnessed in my whole life!!
I was sad to hear the 2.0 was going, but oh my god this is a hell of an upgrade. I feel like this belongs in some either music or tech museum once you’re finally done with it
It should be the music system in the museum. An active display.
@@brasskail5036 probably would start smoking at some point heh
nice pfp
Give it to LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER for THIS MUSEUM IS (NOT) OBSOLETE
@@scienceexclamationmark seconded!
I was worried that the last video was the end! Glad to see Floppotron remains.
It got rebooted
Yeah i thought when 2 was retired that was it , im so glad it wasnt the end.
Einfach nur Wahnsinn. Gut gemacht. Und die ganze Technik die dahinter steckt. Super.
In the last chorus, dare I say the harmonics floating around are just gorgeous. Such a musical rendition with instruments not designed to make music. Bravo!
I'd like to think that the emergency stop buttons are there in case if Floppotron becomes self-aware.
You just have to know there was a giant fire at some point haha
@@joshuamontgomery0 Floppotron 2 experienced technical difficulties at one point, smoked components mid-performance. And there were probably similar incidents that went unrecorded in the earlier days.
I believe you'd need something more physical like a SPAS-12 or something.
...There is no MUSIC other than what we make for ourselves...
---John Connor---
@@CannonFodder873 lol
Imagine what building this monument would have cost back in the 80's.
Some parts would have actually been cheaper because of oversupply and the fact that some parts aren't built anymore and are quite expensive due to rarity today
@@redcrafterlppa303 Yeah floppys were cheap at one time , not now.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
@@redcrafterlppa303 I've been trying to find what 3.5" floppy drives solf for back in the early 80s, but couldn't find anything... to be fair I didn't look TOO hard, but I would have expected it to be higher than buying second hand drives today.
@@redcrafterlppa303 not quite, while thats true the circuits associated to the current arduinos would have ramp up the build...
Oh man! What a serious upgrade! This is AWESOME!
I've been following this for quite some time and to see this progress is really cool! 😎💖
This is what TH-cam is all about
Agreed, even if I didn't expect you here
Hu ?? It was maybe ...
But well Jarrod ... nope .... the truth this is what TH-cam is and must be about and internet anonymous
was
This and gay frogs
Or it was... Good they did not accuse him of copyright infringement
I was expecting fanfare, not clownfare. I admit I laughed WAY too hard at being caught off guard. Top quality as always, looking forward to what other songs 3.0 brings.
clownware
Well the song is named "Entrance of the Gladiators", and it absolutely is a fanfare. It's only because of circuses using it as copyright-free music that it's associated with clowns.
To quote Wikipedia on „Entry of the Gladiators“: „The march demonstrates the state of the art in playing technology and the construction of brass instruments, which allowed fast and even chromatic gears in all instruments and positions.“ So I think this is absolutely the right song.
@@SavageGreywolf Oh I know, but that stigma will never go away and it's part why that startup will almost consistently fool me and throw me for a loop each and every time. Good bit of info, that said!
@@SavageGreywolf I learned something new today. Also, this is the first time I've heard the whole song!
This is so amazing. I absolutely love every Floppotron version you made so far, what a genius idea.
Epic, thank you for giving old hardware a new life. best greets from Germany, Jan
Fantastic, simply fantastic!
Simply FLOPtastic!
Sir, you've just made a 71 year old man cry with happiness. What a marvelous machine! Bravo!
makes you wonder what 4.0 will have added over 3.0🤔
I'm 73 and laughed till hiccups occured!
Magnificent. Great piece. Lovely arrangement. Congratulations.
Simply outstanding. Well done bro !!
I let out an audible "holy crap" when he pulled the cover off that monolithic stack of floppy drives.
Absolute mad lad.
ditto
Me too! Only, in Italian :D
My phone resolution wasn't high enough to work out what it was at first 😂
That's no stack of floppy drives... it's a space station.
Ha, I knew "kiss goodbye" to Floppotron 2 wasn't the end of story! Great work, keep rockin!
I admire you. Great job. Keep up the great work youve been doing.
An incredible creation! Loved the previous incarnations and this is a wonderful evolution. Keep making music with machines!
Honestly, if you can read in any MIDI file, you might actually consider doing a twitch stream where subscribers can upload their own MIDI files and hear the floppotron play it on-stream.
This could probably speak with the right files and can definitely be broken with others, so I doubt that will happen
@@propapanda420 "whats the worst they could do?"
@@Ben-li9zb they can send files that stress the thing without any real musical content
@@robegatt I know, the quotes were there to add to the joke, we don't want someone bricking 300 floppy disks because of their funny program
@@Ben-li9zb black midi
Holy moly this sounds so much better!! I love it!
I think there is some improvement needed before it finished. It is still in beta and I think he will probably work on fixing up some stuff concerning audio as some sounds were pretty loud. I think the floppy disk drives were going on full blast for most of it so the hard disk drives didn't get as much volume. If you think that it is good already, it's gonna get even better.
Pikapetey watches floppatron 😳
I cannot describe how much I love this. Absolutely amazing! 👍👍
The scanner saying fuck when the lights go out is what I'm here for.
I love that it needs two emergency stop buttons, like it will suddenly start improvising and someone goes "it's going off script! shut it down!" and it starts going faster until they press the second button
There are also the circuit breakers.
I read some assembly language code where several subroutines had two STOP commands at the end. The second STOP had a comment "to prevent skidding".
(What was nice, is we could actually modify the code in RAM to replace a few lines before and the first STOP with code that could jump to another subroutine.)
I am most impressed with the difference in cablerequirements for the floppies.
They were the standard once connected to many boards, but now they are way slimmer and only do the neccesary stuff.
@@philreinie8976 what architecture was this 👀
This really does feel like a fairground organ at this point
Yeah, like that music played on Rollercoaster Tycoon 's Merry Go Round
I got that same feeling, then with the juxtaposition of what it's made from, just wow. Imagine if one of the old time calliope builders, could see what is simultaneously a parody and a tribute to their work. So meta... does that mean anything anymore?
There is a organ museum in my town. Would love to see this in an exposition there!
It really reminds me of a geek version of the old Decap organs.
Please see "Bohemian Rhapsody" on a Calliope
th-cam.com/video/JTnGI6Knw5Q/w-d-xo.html
That is amazing. Brilliant work
Cool font for the "instrument" name in the back. FLOPPOTRON 3.0. Nice work in general dude. I respect the patience it takes for these things.
My heart is filled with joy;
No longer do I mourn the passing of Flopptron 2.0
Did it actually die or something?
@@blasterdude18 parts of it was repurposed into the 3.0 it seems
It hasn't passed, it has simply evolved.
The King is dead, long live the King! 🎶🎶
@@blasterdude18 yeah, the video was from sometime last week "Time to Say Goodbye, Floppotron 2.0."
Such a majestic machine
Do not think on stopping, you are doing fantastic!
6EQUJ5!!! All your Floppotrons sounded amazing, but 3.0 sounds so incredibly musical even more-so than its predecessors! Congrats!!!
The power-on sequence is something straight out of some science fiction giant robot anime and I'm here for it.
I am in awe.
Here I was expecting a a long break and this beautiful monstrosity drops!
I can't wait for the complete Lord of the Rings soundtrack to be played!
Me too!! MAN!! You really dropped a bomb on me!!
Floppotron: I am a musician
Hewlett Packard : But we make printers and scanners
Floppotron : No problem !
I love it! That is incredible ingenuity!💜
Just amazing, man! Keep goin'
So amazing it's on TH-cam Trending again, congrats your famous
you're*
Trending again since 2 days ago?
The Floppotron is dead, long live the Floppotron!
Looking forward to all the future song adaptations!
Lol! Ive been binge watching your videos. They do not disappoint.
Amazing ! So much fun ! :D
Thanks for the nerds specs !!!
Make me smile like a kid ;) thank you dude !
The computer programmer in me LOVES the complexities of this hardware, and the musician in me LOVES the amazing attention to detail in the music itself. Unreal.
This is unironically my favorite rendition of Entry of the Gladiators.
Beyond Dope!!! Well done, Sir.
This is awesome. Also, i really like the pattern you made with the different colors of floppy readers.
You've managed to outdo yourself AGAIN this is incredible!
i practically cried when floppytron 2.0 was decommissioned
there are no words to describe my nerdy joy at the revival of this thing!
Now it's two of us Who cried...
I think a collab between yourself, Look Mum No Computer, Device Orchestra and Wintergarten would be insane.
In the words of the great Jean Luc Piccard, make it so.
OH MY GOD YES
The four horsemen
I support this idea
3.0 rock on! Looking forward to all the great work I'm sure you'll keep doing! :D
Imagine an unsuspecting burglar walks in and doesn't know what any of that stuff is and all of a sudden the lights turn on and it starts playing
@Parrie Jenkins Maybe because of this video's song, the first thing I thought of was that circus orchestras have a long tradition of playing Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" to signal to the rest of the circus that there's an emergency without alarming the civilians.
@Parrie Jenkins My personal favorite hospital PA code, which I learned when I was hospitalized in Boston 10 years back, was when they would page Dr. Brown. According to a chart posted at the nurses' station that patients were probably not supposed to be able to see, it meant there was an urgent need for the biohazmat cleanup team in the lobby.
I'd really love to hear the imperial march again on the V3.0. The difference to the beginning must be staggering. What an orchestra! 🤘
Pawle, aż miło się patrzy jak rozwinąłeś swój projekt :)
Good work, Great success!
I love how colors of floppy drives are arranged to look like a piano keyboard. In two different directions!
This is truly a warm-hearted new thing. If you're familiar with old hardware, you can indulge in nostalgia, and if you're unfamiliar, you can be impressed by the novelty. More than anything, it is wonderful that it is well established as music. The visuals are perfect :)
* blink *
...sorry, *_NEW_* thing?
You don't know why ending a phonecall is called "hanging up", do you.... This _was_ normal. Everyone in my generation knows and loves the sounds of a fax machine, a modem, and an answering machine. To some of us, the norm of dilligence never went away. It's not "well established" as music, it was COMPOSED as music, unlike the empty repetition of pointless nonsense that is shite like tiktok. This is the love of an era given form through sheer force of will, dedication to discipline, and hard work. To quote a hilarious phrase from the interrim : "you didn't build that."
We did. We're not dead YET.
@@InservioLetum ……
@@InservioLetum Imagine being so mad over nothing that you have a cow over someone who has made a very kind, heartfelt comment about a machine we have all been excited to see the new iteration of, fitting and fussing over the phrasing of a sentence that may have been written by someone who has English as their second language. Sure, let us get nostalgic about floppy drives and fax machines (though not dot matrix printers, those were horrid), but maybe chill?
Great work!
Absolutely brilliant !!
This is somewhere between a work of technological art, and pure madness. Fantastic work! I think we all knew the Floppotron wouldn't just die like that ;)
Put a huge smile on my face this morning. Long live The Floppotron!
Absolutely AMAZING!!! Also... you are a mad lad!
YEAH , I LOVE IT !!! Many good to songs to come.
Wasn't sure if you were going to push on with 3.0 after seeing the 2.0's goodbye. Happy to see you are pushing on with pride.
it's beautiful... this is perhaps the greatest achievement in floppy drive music in history...
True genius. I'm loving every "bit" of it
You've come quite a long way, my friend. Exceptionally impressive. I came for the assembly language and peizo buzzers and stayed for the incredible effort and gnarly tunez. :D
This sounds absolutely incredible. The hard drives clicking like castanets and the almost electric guitar sound make such an intriguing combination. I can't wait to hear more music on this
As someone who works in manufacturing, seeing these custom controllers is a thing of beauty😍. They aren't big and aren't controlling extremely complicated devices, but still very very impressive none the less. I can tell a lot of work was put into this, it turned out very professional looking. That is like engineering Art!👍
pure genius! Pure pc era enthusiast! You're the man mate, cheers!
Absolutely Awesome Work !!! : - )
I have three things to say, excluding this first sentence.
Firstly, this is incredible.
Secondly, two emergency stop buttons, mildly terrifying. Not sure if it is for the potential of it overheating and catching fire, or the fear of this beautiful but powerful machine turning against its creator.
Thirdly, those floppy disk drives are arranged to look like piano keys arent they? Thats a really nice detail.
Failing is a Beta-Feature?
Concerning third statement.
You mean two left columns? Coz obviously not the rest due to color inversion.
But there are too many white keys between D# and F#
if i was reading it right the PSU's was rated above 1000 watts given the age of the tech involved i think having an emergency off is a smart idea ive seen old parts just burst into flames and electrical fires are no joke.
WOW DUDE
I'm glad someone remembers how a full version upgrade is SUPPOSED to feel! This is so much more musical than 2.0, which was already quite good. This feels like a full step out of novelty and into genre.
It has to be epic to actually be there to hear these in person!
Impressive to say the least, truly amazing! Awesome! :D
It's amazing how the floppy drives sound like old DOS music noises. That it circled around that way is such serendipity.
It's because old DOS synthesizers had a limited range of timbres because they produced only a few simple waveforms (sine, square, sawtooth, etc.). The repurposed computer parts mostly produce tones by modulating their motors, which naturally produce a simple waveform; the modulation occurs at long timescales (probably about a hundred ms) compared to the period of the sound waves (roughly 2 ms). Thus the Floppotron has a similar timbre to DOS synthesizers.
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It's got a whole power-on sequence now! Love the piano key color arraignment of the floppy drives and the light bars on the scanners.
Truly brilliant!
Great job!
God, I can't wait to hear the masterpieces this orchestra will play. Hoping to eventually hear Attack of the Killer Queen from this. The floppotron was the first thing I thought of when I heard that song.
Oh heck yeah, that song would be awesome on the floppotron! [BIG SHOT] would also be really cool too
@@heyhellyco How do you think they might do the voice samples?
@@spearmaster_ Ah man, hadn’t thought of that one, can’t really think of an instrument that would best be used for that 😅
@@spearmaster_ With precise enough timing and pitching, i bet the bank of floppy drives could probably replicate a very robotic human voice, similar to how you can sometimes hear voices in songs that are directly converted to midi from waveforms
I hope this ends up in a museum one day. This is a work of art.
It already has, my friend.
The wonderful museum of the information superhighway!!!
@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER 👆🏻
@@veri8tor my thought exactly!
Wonderful! Incredible! Thank you very much! You're a GENIUS!
wow that's so cool. the time you spent on this must be huge :)